Includes bibliographical references (p. 317-356) and index

Pt. I. Buildings and systems. 1. A public house for a new republic: inventing the American hotel, 1789-1815 -- 2. Palaces of the public: the American hotel comes of age, 1815-1840 -- 3. The hotel system: assembling a transcontinental accommodation network, 1840-1876 -- 4. Imperial hotels and hotel empires: tourism, expansion, standardization, and the beginning of the end of a hotel age, 1876-1908 -- pt. II. Hospitality. 5. The house of strangers: the transformation of hospitality and the everyday life of the hotel -- 6. The law of hospitality: the common law of innkeepers and the public space of the hotel -- 7. Unruly guests and anxious hosts: sex, theft, and violence at the hotel -- pt. III. A nation of hosts and guests. 8. American forum: hotels and civil society -- 9. Homes for a world of strangers: house, hotel, apartment building -- 10. Accommodating Jim Crow: the law of hospitality and the struggle for civil rights

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